On 16/03/12 22:02, Ryan Malayter wrote:
Despite the terrible GUI and passable CLI, we're found the our 6248s to be remarkable stable and bug free. Some have been up for more than 3 years, and all the things you expect to be problematic on cheap switches (cross-stack LACP, multicast, MSTP, QoS) work perfectly.
+1, MSTP/VRRP inter-op with both Cisco 3650-X & Brocade CER worked without fault (well, at a previous position). tl;dr dlogin worked a goddamn treat for me. Props to the guy that wrote it and also Brightbox for helping him out with their 6200's. As I recall it also worked for our 5400's :) <rant> never, EVER, let your 62xx's do any routing. Even a little bit. Push 500Mbit of traffic through it for a few days (or 30Mbit for a few months) and watch it forget how to re-learn ARP entries. ARP timers default to 1200s, so it would learn all address for 20 minutes, refuse for the next 20, then learn again for 20 minutes... Had to pull it down to 60s to make it slightly more obvious. The work-around was to configure "arp dynamicrenew", which fixed it totally. Is it on by default? Is it obvious that you should ask it to do this? Hell no. Dell cared; one guy (Piotr Majunka) from the UK/IE PowerConnect team spent ages helping me diagnose the fault after I'd pulled it out of service. Broadcom on the other hand, couldn't give a shit and to my knowledge it was never fixed (I'm not sure if the 70xx "spiritual successors" still do it) so buyer beware. :) </rant> Tom